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Continuing on with the large craftsman kit from Sierra West Scale Models for my model railroad: Another view: Porch completed: And another view: So far so good. The groundcover is sifted dirt from my yard, glued in place with scenic cement. I will use chalk for the final weathering once I have the building in its final place on my model...

In the previous post you could see this car in the background of a couple of the pics. For a plastic kit I was surprised at the level of detail that comes on this kit. There are many fragile parts on this kit, but the end results are what made it worthwhile. I thought the brake details were surprisingly good, and weren’t that difficult to...

I started to work on the last couple of cars for the HO scale Logging work train from Sierra West Scale Models. The first car is the blacksmith car, essentially a donkey doctor on rails. Here is the basic flat car with the stripwood on the deck and some of the detail castings. Another view: One side of the roof assembly with the work...

At a recent trip to a semi-local hobby shop, Just Trains in Concord, Ca. I picked up the Walthers Shack Pack, a laser-cut card and paper kit. Overall I think that they turned out pretty well, although I intend to weather them with chalk powders before placing them on the layout. As I have found with other Walthers kits the directions were a little...